A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER HAND BASIN
Lot 159

A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER HAND BASIN

MARK OF JOSEPH WARD, LONDON, 1705

Closed19 October 2010

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USD 32,500

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A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER HAND BASIN
MARK OF JOSEPH WARD, LONDON, 1705
Circular, with a roll-over rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms within baroque cartouche, the base engraved with monogram RT and scratch weight 33=18=0, marked under base
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter; 32 oz. 10 dwt. (1,016 gr.)

With Tessier, London

Specialist note

The arms are those of the Welsh families of Trevor, Mostyn, Dymock, Edwards, and Yonge of Bryniorcyn impaling those of another

This bowl is nearly identical in form to the Earl of Warrington's set of wash basins, described in his 1750 inventory as "Hand Basons for the Rooms." See James Lomax and James Rothwell, Country House Silver from Dunham Massey, 2006, cat. 54, pp. 110-111. Three lots of silver from the Earl of Warrington's collection are offered here (lots 151-153).